PESHAWAR, Aug 1: The bodies of three boys who had drowned in a pond in Takht-i-Nasrati tehsil of Karak district on Monday were retrieved on Tuesday morning, residents and officials said. The residents said that the boys had gone to a pond in the mountains near the Sarki Lawaghar village, where rainwater had accumulated, to take a dip. When they did not return home in the evening, their relatives and other villagers started searching for them. Finally, after searching the whole night, they found their bodies lying near the pond. The victims were identified as Shah Nawaz Khan, 14; Naseem, 15, and Ahmad, 12.

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